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The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundrum to researchers and policymakers alike: the rural-urban happiness paradox. Is quality of life really better in the countryside? How and under which circumstances is this the case? Did influential writers like Edward Glaeser get it all wrong when suggesting that the city had now triumphed? What can we learn from digging deeper in the rural-urban happiness paradox and which critical questions does this leave us with for the future? What might policymakers, planners, architects and other influential actors learn from such an exercise? The purpose of the proposed book is to delve deeper into these matters by asking what quality of life in rural areas is actually all about. Since 2018 a cross-disciplinary team of researchers from four research environments at three Danish universities has been carrying out an ambitious research project to do just that. In this edited volume their findings are presented alongside chapters written by specially commissioned international authors from across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

Rural population. --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- Rural population --- Rural conditions --- Rural life --- Social history --- Everyday rural life. --- built environment. --- civil society. --- community planning. --- cultural resilience. --- measuring subjective wellbeing. --- moral geography. --- rural youth. --- social diversity. --- urban discourses.

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This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places. It does this by acknowledging that to understand the impact of the international migration-global nexus, it is essential to explore how it is experienced at a local level - in the context of this book, rural regions. Focusing on agribusiness and rural development, as well as the othering of international migrants and the shifting boundaries of belonging in rural spaces, the chapters in this book examine how globalisation, with migration being a constitutive feature, influences different rural contexts in the ‘Global North’ and the impact this has on migrant populations. Chapters demonstrate the harsh lived experiences/realities characterised by mental health issues and emotional labour for migrants, occupational health and safety issues in the workplace and experiences of exclusion and racism from ‘host’ communities. These chapters taken together identify a rural-migration nexus where the relationship between international migration and localised rural spaces are mutually constitutive. .

Biotechnology. --- Globalization. --- Social structure. --- Equality. --- Industrial sociology. --- Agriculture—Economic aspects. --- Human geography. --- Social Structure. --- Sociology of Work. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Human Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Social institutions --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Social aspects --- Sociology, Rural. --- Rural conditions. --- Urban-rural migration. --- Cities and towns, Movement from --- City-country migration --- Counterurbanization --- Migration, Urban-rural --- Urban exodus --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban relations --- Rural life --- Social history --- Rural sociology --- Agriculture --- Economic aspects. --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects